At 08:52 AM 3/15/00 -0500, Ed James, TCS Inc, 410-295-1919,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
>Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:45:58 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >Well, we now have (for VMS 7+) unixish times from the CRTL, including
> > >TZ support; and paths for looking for commands. No doubt more unixish
> > >features will be added (wasn't there some discussion on comp.os.vms
> > >recently about a new system service using 'NUL terminated strings'
> > >instead of descriptors?)....I expect to see piping and i/o redirection
> > >on the command line soon, if it hasn't been added already.
> >
> > They're retiring the services that take null-terminated strings in
> favor of
> > ones that take descriptors. Just got announced today.
>
>Would you please tell us where this was announced?
Saw it on the Info-Vax mailing list. (Clair Grant made the announcement
IIRC) Info-VAX is a two-way gateway to comp.os.vms, so it ought to be in
deja somewhere.
Dan
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dan Sugalski General and VMS-specific perl training
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail me for more details
